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The leadership of a handful of countries is masking the failure of the majority to deliver on their overseas aid promises, said Oxfam today in response to the publication of
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Total aid pledged at the Third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria, in Kuwait City, Kuwait, is less than half the amount needed this year to help people in desperate humanitarian need.
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Oxfam's reaction on the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, a global plan that's meant to build the resilience of communities to disasters over the next 15 years and lead to bolder commitments on disaster risk reduction,
European Commission deceiving citizens with vague tax transparency proposal
The European Commission today published a proposal setting out plans to increase transparency on tax issues within the European Union.
Europe playing risky game with climate change targets
Today EU Environment Ministers agreed the official EU emissions reductions pledge for the United Nations climate talks in Paris at the end of the year, backing an "at least 40%" emissions reduction target and failing to provide clarity on whether loopholes could water down the offer.
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Former FBI agent, Neil Sheridan has been called in for his expertise by his friend and colleague, Rick. Neil once handled a murder case whose actions were quite similar to Chevy's. Their investigation leads them to Beth's doorstep but they know that she isn't being honest when questioned as to her connection to these killings. Beth has no other choice but to trust and believe in Neil... but as their feelings grow stronger and Chevy draws nearer she worries about what the truth of that fateful night, years ago with Chevy, might cost her.
This was a fast-paced thriller, full of twists and turns that had me at the edge of my seat. It had these great characters - Beth, Neil and even Chevy, that were broken in one way or another, but who were strong, clever and downright terrorizing (Chevy). Although some scenes were graphic in nature - they were not overly disturbing. I thought it was neat that Chevy had his own chapters so you were able to get these glimpses into his disturbed mind. He was always one step ahead of the good guys and the whole Jenny thing was just creepy. The romance was very subtle - I would classify this more as a thriller than a romantic suspense - which is a good thing. I really enjoyed this and I'm sure that fans of detective/murder mysteries, thrillers and action novels will too.
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ROME – The United States and some European allies are edging closer to direct involvement in Syria's civil war with plans to deliver meals, medical kits and other forms of nonlethal assistance to the rebels battling President Bashar Assad.
The U.S., Britain, France and Italy aren't planning to supply the Free Syrian Army with weapons or ammunition. But moves are afoot to significantly boost the size and scope of their aid to the political and military opposition. Such decisions could be announced as early as Thursday at an international conference on Syria in Rome.
Britain and France are keen to give the rebels the means to protect themselves from attacks by Assad's forces, including Scud missiles fired in recent days against the city of Aleppo, U.S. and European officials say.
Assistance could mean combat armor, vehicles and other equipment not deemed to be offensive, the officials said. It could include training in battlefield medical care and the protection of human rights, they said.
For now, the Obama administration is advancing more modestly. It is nearing a decision whether to give ready-made meals and medical supplies to the opposition fighters, who have not received direct U.S. assistance.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to announce the new contributions at the Rome conference, in addition to tens of millions of dollars intended for rule of law and governance programs.
The shifts in strategy are part of a step-by-step process that could lead to direct military aid to carefully screened members of the Free Syrian Army if the nearly 2-year conflict continues. Some 70,000 people have died in the fighting.
The European Union last week renewed an arms embargo against Syria for three months. But foreign ministers made clear that the decision could be reviewed while they look at ways to increase pressure on Assad to leave.
Washington has provided $385 million in humanitarian aid to Syria's war-weary population and $54 million in communications equipment, medical supplies and other nonlethal assistance to Syria's political opposition. The U.S. also has screen rebel groups for Turkey and American allies in the Arab world that have armed rebel fighters.
No U.S. dollars or provisions have gone directly to rebels. That decision reflects concerns about forces that have allied themselves with more radical Islamic elements since Assad's initial crackdown on peaceful protesters in March 2011.
Kerry said Wednesday in Paris that both the U.S. and Europe want a negotiated solution to the crisis and would speak to the leaders of the Syrian National Coalition about that. He also said the world must be prepared to do more to support the rebels and he accused Assad's government of engaging in "criminal behavior."
"We want their advice on how we can accelerate the prospects of a political solution because that is what we believe is the best path to peace, the best way to protect the interests of the Syrian people, the best way to end the killing and the violence," he said at a news conference with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
"That may require us to change President Assad's current calculation," Kerry said. "He needs to know that he can't shoot his way out of this. And so we need to convince him of that, and I think the opposition needs more help in order to be able to do that."
Fabius offered a similar assessment.
"The situation is unbearable and we need to find the means to a transition and for Assad's departure," he said. "We agree all of us on the fact that Mr. Bashar Assad has to quit."
Britain's Foreign Office also said it would increase its support for Syria's opposition.
The possibility of a sudden change in U.S. strategy comes as President Barack Obama begins a second term and Kerry succeeds Hillary Rodham Clinton as the top U.S. diplomat.
Freed from the constraints of a re-election campaign, administration officials say there is greater leeway now for new approaches than last year, when Obama rebuffed a plan by Clinton, then-CIA Director David Petraeus and then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to arm the Syrian rebels.
The administration remains cautious, officials say, and is resisting European pressure to expand military aid to include the kind of items that Britain and France are considering.
Few Americans want to see their country dragged into another war of complicated loyalties and sectarian rivalries in the Muslim world, a little more than a year after leaving Iraq and with 66,000 U.S. combat troops still in Afghanistan.
Administration officials say they don't have enough assurances that rebel units under the sway of Islamic fundamentalists won't turn their weapons on Israel or other U.S. allies and fragile states in the region.
Lebanon is torn by some of the same internal sectarian divisions as Syria and Jordan is struggling with its political reform path.
Iraq's prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, warned on Wednesday that a victory by Syrian rebels would lead to more fighting in Iraq and a new haven for al-Qaida.
Greater instability in any of Syria's neighbors would pose a whole new set of problems.
Still, officials said the U.S. was considering a gradually upgraded involvement in Syria to bolster moderate forces within the rebel ranks and help the fledgling political opposition win greater backing among Syrians, especially minority groups that have remained largely loyal to Assad and his government.
Debate within the administration on how best to accomplish these goals has increased in recent months as diplomatic efforts have failed to end the war. The Syrian opposition insists that only weapons, intelligence support and other forms of military aid truly can tip the balance.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, urged the administration to consider lethal aid.
"We should want the best organized, the best equipped and most dominant groups in the opposition to be groups that are friendlier to our national interests," Rubio, a Florida Republican, said Wednesday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
The position is similar to one Kerry held as a senator, and one he reminded reporters of this week when he proposed the creation of opposition safe zones and suggested providing rebels with U.S. weaponry.
But in his first month as secretary of state and on his first official trip overseas, the 2004 presidential candidate has been vaguer.
"We have a lot of ideas on the table, and some of them, I am confident, will come to maturity by time we meet in Rome," Kerry said this week. "Others may take a little more of a gestation period, but they're no less part of the mix and part of the discussion.
"What I can tell you is we are determined that the Syrian opposition is not going to be dangling in the wind wondering where the support is or if it's coming, and we are determined to change the calculation on the ground for President Assad."
Klapper reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Kenneth Thomas in Washington, Sylvia Hui in London, and Silvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report.


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You're at lunch and all the cool kids at the table are raving about how awesome quantum physics is. You have no idea what they're talking about but everyone else is apparently a huge fan. So to fit in, you take subtle strides to create the illusion that you know everything about everything and that you deserve to be a part of the conversation.
You sit there, fist firmly placed under your chin. Your brow, furrowed. But everything that's being said is going over your head. Someone says something that sounds intelligent and the whole table roars in agreement. After the noise dies down, you release a perfectly timed "me too!" to confirm everyone else knows you know everything about everything.
Someone then shoots you a confused glance. Crap! Maybe your contribution was too emphatic? Or maybe the timing wasn't spot on? Have you unintentionally blown your cover as the person who may not actually know?
This is our nature. Humans tend to shy away from what makes them uncomfortable or pretend to know the things they don't to fit in. And when it comes to OpenDaylight and OpenStack, I was the kid who did not know.
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if you're the kind of person who runs a couple of marathons then takes their nikes back to the shop because the soles have worn out then then yeh worth a punt?
if you surf a lot(not weekend warrior) ANY suit is gonna be a bit haggered after a years use, just the way it is, boards wear out suits wear out, the tyres on your car wear out(quicker if you drive hard).
i buy a new winter suit every year, and sell the old one to take some of the damage, i accept this as i surf my ass off and expect stuff to wear out after a certain amount of usage.
you can do a lot of damage to suits taking em off sloppily, over stretching the seams leads to leaks on any brand, some quicker than others.
last years xcel was the best i've had in the last 8 years, could easily do anther winter for me, so the billabong argument is bollocks from people who like to regurgitate shit to make them sound cool.


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Bishop Guilfoyle defeats Lady Crusaders 36-19
ALTOONA – The Elk County Catholic Lady Crusaders' season came to on end on Saturday afternoon at the Altoona Area High School gym, as they were defeated in the opening round of the girls' PIAA Class A State Championship tournament by two-time defending state champion Bishop Guilfoyle. The Lady Marauders handed the Lady Crusaders a 36-19 loss in that opening-round game.The Lady Crusaders played the Lady Marauders pretty evenly, except for a two-minute run at the end of the second period, when the Lady Marauders ran off 11 straight points to extend their lead from six points to 17 points at the halftime break."I was happy with the way we executed our game plan today and other than the closing couple of minutes at the end of the first half, we played them pretty even," said Ken Pistner, ECCHS head coach. "Once again, our shooting hurt us, as we just couldn't get the ball to fall through."Bishop Guilfoyle has a really good team and I felt we did a good job on defense against them, holding them to just 36 points. I am proud of the way the girls played for the entire 32 minutes of the game, as they never let up."Our seniors, Karly Carnovale, Emily Gregory, Ellie Petrosky and Anna Hawkins, deserve a lot of credit for our 20-win season, as they worked hard all year long and provided leadership to our younger players. I am sure they are disappointed that the season has ended."A good thing about today's game is it allowed me to use our entire bench and give the younger girls playing opportunity against a quality team in a playoff situation. Our younger players went against the BG starters and performed very well against them, and this will go a long way in preparing them for next season."Elk Catholic was led in scoring by Emily Gregory, Karly Carnovale and Kristy Hanes with four points each, followed by Abbi Petrosky with three points and Lexie Meholic and Maggie Sorg with two points each.Bishop Guilfoyle was paced by Halee Adams with 20 points on nine field goals and two foul goals. She was followed by Kelsey Livoti with seven points, Elyssa Ehredt with five points and Devin Stessney with four points.The first period was a very low-scoring period, as both teams played exceptional defense. The Lady Marauders scored the first six points of the period to take a 6-0 lead before Elk Catholic's Maggie Sorg scored the first ECC points, 6-2. Shortly before the period ended, Adams scored for the BG girls to make it 8-2 at the end of the first period.The second period started out as another defensive struggle. Elk's Emily Gregory scored the first points of the period at the 5:58 point to cut the lead to 8-4. Two BG foul goals a little later pushed the lead to 10-4. With about three and a half minutes left in the period, Abbi Petrosky scored for the Lady Crusaders, 10-6, but BG answered with a bucket seconds later, 12-6. In the closing two and a half minutes of the period, the BG girls went on an 11-point run to push the lead to 23-6 at the end of the first half.Lexie Meholic scored on a putback to open the second half, 23-8. A three-point play by Adams pushed the lead to 26-8. Kristy Hanes connected on two straight field goals to make it 26-12, then an eight point run by the Lady Marauders pushed it to 34-12. Gregory closed out the scoring in the period with a field goal to make it 34-14 at the end of three.The final period was all defense, as the Lady Crusaders held the Lady Marauders to just two points, while they were able to score five points, one by A. Petrosky and four by Karly Carnovale, to make the final score 36-19.The Lady Crusaders finished the season with a 16-6 regular-season record, were 1-1 in the AML playoffs and were 3-1 in the District 9-A playoffs and 0-1 in the PIAA State Playoffs for an overall 20-9 mark.Bishop Guilfoyle is now 25-1 on the season and will advance to the second round of the PIAA Class A playoffs.Seniors wearing the maroon and gold for the final time were Anna Hawkins, Emily Gregory, Karly Carnovale and Ellie Petrosky.Elk Catholic had 12 turnovers in the game, while the Bishop Guilfoyle girls had nine.ECCHS 2 4 8 5 - 19BGHS 8 15 11 2 - 36Elk County Catholic 19Emily Gregory 2-0-0-1-4, Abbi Petrosky 1-0-1-2-3, Lexie Meholic 1-0-0-0-2, Karly Carnovale 1-0-2-2-4, Taylor DaCanal 0-0-0-0-0, Kristy Hanes 2-0-0-0-4, Ellie Petrosky 0-0-0-0-0, Maggie Sorg 1-0-0-0-2, Anna Hawkins 0-0-0-0-0, Helen Danz 0-0-0-0-0, Morgan Onink 0-0-0-0-0, Michele Imbrogno 0-0-0-0-0. Totals 8-0-3-5-19.Bishop Guilfoyle 36Elyssa Ehredt 2-0-1-1-5, Kayla Bates 0-0-0-0-0, Devin Stessney 2-0-0-0-4, Kelsey Livoti 2-0-3-6-7, Halee Adams 9-0-2-3-20. Totals 15-0-6-36.


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Tony Stewart avoids charges after deadly crash: Cops
The tragic death of a 20-year-old race car driver at tiny Canandaigua Motorsports Park near Rochester, N.Y., Saturday night has thrown NASCAR Sprint Cup star Tony Stewart's life into turmoil.
Stewart was doing one of his usual one-off dirt track events – this one as part of the Empire Super Sprints series – when he and 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr., of nearby Port Leyden, N.Y., collided during the 25-lap race, sending Ward's No. 13 car into the wall at the half-mile dirt track.
An amateur video (GRAPHIC WARNING) showed Ward – dressed in all black and wearing a dark helmet – get out of his wrecked car and walk down the dimly-lit track to confront Stewart as he drove his No. 14 car back around the track.
Stewart's car then struck Ward, throwing him about 15 meters across the track.
Ontario County Sheriff Philp Povero said his department is not investigating the incident as a criminal matter and that Stewart, a three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, has been "fully cooperative."
Stewart was questioned at the scene and released.
@espn Tony Stewart just ran over driver after he got out of his car in retaliation pic.twitter.com/R5Gz82EIPX— logan messerly (@loganmesserly) August 10, 2014
According to a witness on scene at Canadaigua Speedway in NY Tony Stewart & Kevin Ward tangled during a Sprint Car wreck… (cont) #NASCAR— Bob Dillner (@bobdillner) August 10, 2014
(Cont) Ward got out of car & walked toward Tony Stewart's car to confront him. Stewart's car made contact w/Ward. (Cont) #NASCAR— Bob Dillner (@bobdillner) August 10, 2014
(Cont) Witness says police secured area, track cancelled rest of racing for the night and everyone was ushered out of the track. #NASCAR— Bob Dillner (@bobdillner) August 10, 2014
Another fan reported to me that the driver who was on the track was hit and was knocked back about 25 feet. #TonyStewart— Adam Longo (@adamlongoCBS5) August 10, 2014
"This is right now being investigated as an on-track crash," Povero said on Sunday. "The investigation is only 16 hours old … When the investigation is completed, we will sit down with the district attorney and review it. But I want to make it very clear: there are no criminal charges pending at this time."
It would appear that Stewart, as Povero said, will not be charged with any offence as a result of the fatality unless there is more compelling evidence brought forward.
It does, however, have huge implications for Stewart and his NASCAR career.
First off, Stewart pulled himself from Sunday's Sprint Cup Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glen International, very likely costing him and his team a spot in the Chase for the Championship.
The decision was made by Stewart and announced by Stewart Haas Racing vice-president of competition Greg Zipadelli.
He was replaced by Regan Smith in the No. 14 SHR Chevrolet.
Zipadelli said he met with Stewart both Saturday night and early on Sunday morning and that was when the decision was made.
"We talked last night and then … gave Tony some time to sleep on it and met with him this morning and he feels strongly this is the right thing to do," Zipadelli said.
"We at SHR support it and agree with it. It's a difficult time for both parties; there's not a lot you can do.
"The only thing we can do is do what we feel is right and this is it."
Stewart himself issued a statement Sunday afternoon.
"There aren't words to describe the sadness I feel about the accident that took the life of Kevin Ward Jr.," he said. "It's a very emotional time for all involved, and it is the reason I've decided not to participate in today's race at Watkins Glen.
"My thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends and everyone affected by this tragedy."
Stewart currently is 19th in the championship, with no wins and now only four races left to make it to the Chase.
With the points he lost by sitting out Sunday, Stewart's only hope is to win one of those four remaining races.
His best hope would have been at Watkins Glen, where he is a five-time race winner.
Zipadelli said he hadn't given much thought to the effect of the fatal accident on Stewart's Chase chances.
"Honestly that is the furthest thing from our minds right now," he said. "That's something that when we get home on Monday, we'll have to look at, evaluate and go through that and make decisions."
NASCAR officials also issued a statement supporting Stewart's decision to pull out of Sunday's race.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family, friends, and fellow competitors of Kevin Ward Jr.," Kerry Tharp, NASCAR's senior director of competition communications, said. "We support Tony Stewart's decision to miss today's race."
The troubling fact in all of this is that it is the third major episode involving the three time Sprint Cup champion in the past year while racing on a dirt track in a series other than NASCAR.
Almost exactly a year ago Stewart suffered a compound fracture in his right leg in a wreck during a sprint car race at Southern Iowa Speedway that cost him the second half of the NASCAR season.
And just a week before that he wrecked at Oshweken Speedway near Brantford, Ont., where he flipped his car five times at the half mile dirt oval but was unhurt.
There have been calls for Stewart to at least cut back on his extracurricular racing activities. When it affects his multi-million dollar NASCAR team, however, it is certain there are and will be repercussions.
At the end of the day, despite anything else, a 20-year-old young man is dead.
"We know that it's just an unbelievable tragedy," Zipadelli said. "Our hearts go out to Kevin and his family. This is a tough and emotional time for everybody."


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The fear behind the Muslim center at Ground Zero
The big interfaith news of the weekend was not good: The Anti-Defamation League announced that it is against a proposed Muslim center two blocks from Ground Zero.
The ADL, which fights anti-Semitism, is being accused of hypocrisy for the decision, but it says it is taking sides with families who lost loved ones on 9/11. "Their anguish entitles them to positions that others would categorize as irrational or bigoted," National Director Abraham H. Foxman told the New York Times.
The NYT, along with a number of media outlets, misidentifies the center as a mosque in the headline, though the story clarifies its purpose: "Oz Sultan, the programming director for the center, said the complex was based on Jewish community centers and Y.M.C.A.'s in Manhattan. It is to have a board composed of Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders and is intended to create a national model of moderate Islam."
But this story isn't just about this one center. Americans seem to be afraid of Muslims gathering throughout the country, as we can see in the Tennessee official's comments on Islam in response to a question about a proposed mosque that he was asked on the campaign trail.
In Infidel (which I just finished last week), former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali describes the problem of government-funded Muslim community centers and schools in Holland. These centers promoted fundamentalist Islam. Her response: cut funding to all religious centers and schools-Muslim, Catholic, or Protestant.
While that makes complete sense to us in the U.S. (people fighting for government assistance for Catholic schools might want to think about this), the point is that Hirsi Ali rejects all religion, not just Islam. Christopher Hitchens writes the forward to her book.
One of the top blog commentaries on Google about this center near ground zero comes from an atheist, blaming 9/11 on religion as a whole.
What are our options? We can reject Islam and try to convert a billion people to Christianity (not likely, especially if we make them hate us, as a Christian responding to the Tennessee case said). We can reject all religion and try to convert the whole world to atheism (even less likely). Both of these would likely beget more violence and maintain the "clash of civilization" mentality.
Or we can support those Muslims working for moderation and dialogue. There are moderate Muslims on YouTube and Malaysian TV. We've asked them to stand up against terrorism, but then we aren't standing behind them.
What better way to stand up to terror, though, than building a place of dialogue and community close to (but not on) the place that extremists made their statement? Than saying that we refuse to let you define Islam?


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Sen. Chuck Morse: On Medicaid, a New Hampshire option that worksBY SEN> CHUCK MORSE
February 18. 2014 5:20PM
More than any other issue, my Senate colleges and I hear from our neighbors, constituents and business leaders most often about the rising cost of health care and its impact on purchasing power, job growth and our economy.
New Hampshire citizens pay the second-highest health insurance premium rates in the nation, due primarily to a lack of competition in our insurance market and the cost of caring for 200,000 uninsured or Medicaid-dependent residents. Combined, the value of these hidden taxes approaches nearly $1 billion a year, which places a heavy burden on every taxpayer and insurance policy holder in the state. And yet despite the price tag, the quality of care available to the underinsured remains far from adequate.
Obamacare has failed to address the rising cost of care in New Hampshire or to improve the quality of services available to our residents. Thousands have lost their health care benefits and are now paying more for plans that offer less. The law has created legions of new taxes, discouraged people from working, and further complicated a dysfunctional system.
Unfortunately, despite proving expensive, unmanageable and unpopular, Obamacare's failures have not spurred policymakers in Washington to repeal or replace it. Here in New Hampshire, we would be making a tremendous mistake if we allowed Obamacare or the expansion of Medicaid to move forward, and this is why I have and will continue to oppose the misguided implementation of this federal law.
Instead, to bring down the cost of care and improve patient outcomes, the Senate will move forward with a New Hampshire solution. Our proposal will establish a two-year pilot program, 100-percent funded with existing federal dollars, to give low-income New Hampshire residents the opportunity to purchase high-quality private insurance coverage. Contrary to the one-size fits all Obamacare model, we are seeking an unprecedented level of flexibility to manage an alternative health care program that works for New Hampshire.
Our program includes important cost-saving and personal responsibility reforms, such as copayments and deductibles, preventative care and wellness measures, and referrals for job counseling for participants without steady employment. These reforms will encourage beneficiaries to take responsibility for their own health and give them the tools to build a better life for themselves and their families.
Opponents of this plan have muddied the water on this difficult issue, and that's unfortunate given the challenges we face. I'd like to address a few of those unfounded criticisms.
First, to be very clear, our proposal will not increase state spending, nor will it increase the number of residents on Medicaid. Republicans would not have agreed to anything else.
Second, our bill is very specific that without the approval of the necessary waivers the program will not proceed. Nowhere is it suggested that waiver refusal would result in defaulting to Medicaid expansion.
And finally, to protect our taxpayers, the bill ends the program automatically if at any time federal funding drops below 100 percent. I agree that enforcing this sunset will require political courage. However, Republican senators have repeatedly shown that we will stand with New Hampshire against the effects of Obamacare. If we had not done so over the course of the last year, the President's costly entitlement expansion plan would already be law, and we would have lost this opportunity to forge our own path.
Obamacare is moving the nation towards a single-payer health care system, and Medicaid expansion is forcing millions of patients into a system of subpar care and increasing dependence on government.
Our proposal takes New Hampshire in a starkly different direction by encouraging competition in our private health care market by creating new customers, increasing reimbursement rates and bringing new providers into the market. Assisting in the purchase of high-quality private coverage will improve the quality of life of thousands of low-income residents while simultaneously improving their ability to earn a living and contribute to our economy.
What we are offering is a private-option solution to address New Hampshire specific needs. By moving this bill forward, we will be taking a vitally important step to enhance the lives of our citizens and strengthen our economy.
Sen. Chuck Morse, R-Salem, is president of the New Hampshire Senate.


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The first chapter of Chinese urbanization was a story of migrant workers. The next chapter will be about their families.
As China continues to grow, rich, effective urbanization will require more than just providing job opportunities. It will require new policy initiatives to bring more children and elderly from the countryside into the city. By doing so, the Chinese government can begin to address Chinese income inequality, rebalance the economy toward services and consumption, all the while setting the stage for further economic reforms.
According to population data from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, over the past 30 years the proportion of Chinese people living in cities has more than doubled from around 20% to over 50%. Most of the migration into the cities has been in the form of migrant laborers leaving the countryside in search of higher wages.
As a result, prime age laborers are overrepresented in the cities while children and the elderly are underrepresented. According to the 2009 population survey, the proportion of people in cities between the ages of 0-19 was about 2 percentage points lower than in the villages. This number was reversed for people between the ages of 20-39. When mothers and fathers move to the cities in search of higher wages, they leave their children behind to be taken care of by grandparents. As such, if urbanization is going to continue, it will need to bring these groups into the fold.
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Quartz: China can boost consumption by moving children and the elderly into cities
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Driven by growing multichannel interactions with their customers, many businesses are moving away from call centres in favour of social media and virtual help centres to deal with customer complaints and queries.
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Online holiday bookings at a record high. According to the latest ITB World Travel Trends Report, 65% of all holidays are now booked online, compared to just 24% that are booked via travel agencies.
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However, it's only when we measure what customers are actually seeing and doing when they are interacting with our digital channels, that we can understand where they might have issues or unmet needs.
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As a major battle begins for UK 4G customers, brands need to be prepared for a rapid increase in mobile customer experience expectations.
O2, the UK subsidiary of Spanish operator Telefonica, is due to launch its 4G service on August 29, finally providing a rival to EE's market monopoly.
Meanwhile, Vodafone is expected to also launch its 4G service in August and Three is expected to follow suit shortly.
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Ahead of the Apple App Store's fifth birthday next month, some brands are beginning to seriously weigh up the benefits of investing in a dedicated app versus optimising their existing sites for mobile.
Choosing the most viable mobile strategy is now a major element in most businesses' plans, and this is the key message emerging from the Mobile Experience Trends Briefing, which we recently launched with Econsultancy.
Reducing customer struggle: get mobile right the first time
Last week we all waited with baited breath to find out 'what' exactly Apple was going to launch at this year's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC).
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Mobile marketing is on the move
Capitalising on 2012's success, mobile commerce is finally reaching its stride, and all the signs suggest that 2013 is a banner year for mobile.
Data shows that more and more consumers shop and buy through their mobile devices. In fact, a quick recap of 2012 shows that online shopping reached an all-time high during the 2012 Christmas period, with 30% growth on Cyber Monday alone. Sales soared and consumers flocked to their tablets, smartphones, and other mobile devices to make purchases.
What this also asserts is that marketers, ecommerce executives and retailers must examine the customer experience and eliminate customer pain points that block successful conversions for the retailer.
If a customer voices issues with mobile transactions, retailers must identify the issue and why it causes customers to react negatively, then they must resolve the issue immediately.
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A lot has been made of the growth of digital device usage and the complexity it brings as we look to build an ever-clearer picture of customer behavior.
With more channels and ways of shopping at our disposal, the behaviour of individual consumers differs significantly from person to person. The result is that effective customer experience management now includes more data points than ever before.
By creating customer behaviour models that provide audience specific insights however, this digital maze is perfectly navigable.
Are we investing at the wrong end of the sales funnel?
For years now, working in the web optimisation space, I've always been frustrated by one simple fact: businesses spend millions of pounds every year driving customers to a website, but spend almost nothing helping those customers convert. For me, it's a wholly misguided strategy, but is one that doesn't seem set to change any time soon.
It's easy to come up with reasons for this remaining the status quo and many myths exist. My favourite is perhaps the case that marketing is relatively expensive whereas popping up a website is a drop in the ocean. But with declines in the effectiveness of traditional marketing combined with increased web sophistication and multiple digital channels now available, it's surely getting to the stage where the opposite is becoming true.
Will tablets beat smartphones in the m-commerce race?
Smartphones are for browsing, tablets are for buying. That's if you believe the results of a recent Sapient/Nitro survey, which shows that 56% of consumers rate tablets as useful for shopping compared to just 38% on smartphones.
There's no doubt any online retailer reading these results will sit up and take note. But in order to turn this into an actionable mobile strategy, it is important to understand more about consumer behaviour on mobile devices of all types and how that behaviour changes and evolves.
E-commerce growth is plateauing: how do you stay competitive?
Recent figures published by BRC-KPMG give the UK retail industry another grim reality check.
According to the report, there was only a small 2.3% rise in total UK retail sales numbers during February 2012, a significant slowdown when compared to January (where sales grew 11.3%) and 2011 (where overall growth was 18.5%).
Making the most of mobile commerce opportunities in 2012
Mobile is booming. Chances are that, if you're shopping online in 2012, increasingly you'll be carrying out part of the transaction on a mobile device.
The majority of smartphone users are now using a mobile device to browse and shop online while, in the UK, 5m tablet owners are expected to purchase a second device in 2012.
IHS screen digest recently released research predicting that in-app purchases will hit £3.6 billion in 2015, accounting for as much as 64% of mobile app market revenues.
So one thing is clear: if optimising your mobile channel isn't high on your list of priorities in 2012, it really should be.


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Main page here, Ars Technica team listings, and Free-DC stats.
Ars is waaaaay behind in the standings at position #33 (as of this thread posting).
I've hit on this on and off for a bit now. The challenge is that many teams are well entrenched. It's going to take some serious effort to make progress. I was thinking of maybe a later summer or fall gauntlet.
Back to this until MilkyWay figures out their problems.
Some WU's in Sztaki take a few minutes, some about an hour, on my C2D-2ghz system.
It's a math project involving binary numbers in matrices, though the explanation isn't detailed enough for me to really grok it. Anybody mathematical 'round here that can simplify what it's all about?
It's all Greek to me, as well. By your Tribus, I am guessing you are in my neck of the woods. Where exactly are you?
I'm in SE Visconsin and I drive a Yon Yonsin ... er,um ... Buick.
Would help if someone spoke Hungarian, as there has been no real update as to what dimension we're crunching of late. Is it still stuck on 11, or are we up to 15 yet?
Doing this until the end of July; on weekends, someone over there pulls the plug to collect data, but it's rarely longer than a day or two.
Only one person still putting a few WU's away -- they don't take that long on a fast system!
(courtesy bump)
They're working on the 13th dimension, according to a few forum posts.
I've been wanting to try this project at some time, but it looks like WUs are sporadic. Would this be a project like Simap where WUs only come out once a month?
Not quite. Normally when they have work they have a whole lot of it. They just seem to be between phases of the project at the moment.
I put a handful of machines on Sztaki this AM. Got WUs right away and got crackin. Too bad these require validation and therefore sit in Pending for a bit. Here's hoping the points are higher than submitted for, as the WUs are long compared to some projects.
100k here I come.
Good luck on that Leavitron..
I had 57K in pending for the last month or so (which would have put me over 100k) and it all disappeared....
I'd be very wary of putting in too much effort here.
There is a note on the front page of the project that says they had a problem and had to kill off a bunch of WUs on the 12th of Nov.
Bonus: I've had over 100 points already validate. So it's at least working some.
If we had 5 people do 100k on this, we could shoot from the 30s to almost top 10. 10 people doing 100k would put us comfortably in top 10.
This project is a little below average in points and the WUs require validation so sit in Pending for a bit. It is stable and it does provide steady work so far. However, the client will not D/L WUs on a 64-bit client OS (Server 2003 in my case).
One nice thing about this project is that it send WUs as they complete and fetches more at the same time. It doesn't wait for periodic updates.
I'm idle because I got bit twice - most recently by the same event that robbed Bok. If you continue to have good luck (let us know), I might give it another whirl.
Well, from the AM update I am the highest producing user and Ars is the #1 producing team. So it must be working for the moment. Should be 12 days to 100k then I will probably hop off.
Don't worry, she goes belly up and I will drop her like a hot potato.
If I could get some help we would really roll up the ranks while everyone else is taking a (cautious) break!
I'll have a go at this too, but have a few things to finish off 1st.
Maybe I'll be able to beat you to 200k after all (I better take a screenshot soon, just in case... )
I'll keep on keep'n on...
Thanks for the company L!
You are most welcome Stargazer!
Thanks for the help Beyond!
Tried to connect with my Linux clients, but it won't send to 64bit machines:
SZTAKI Desktop Grid 11/26/2008 11:56:04 PM Message from server: platform 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' not found
I get the same on my 64-bit Server 2003 machine. It apparently refuses to talk to 64-bit OS's. So my server managed to chew through almost 10k of PrimeGrid PPS Sieve instead.
(Now they are out of work so it is trickling some Yoyo until I can figure out something else to do.)
Awesome, we need the help there.
OKay, I got my 100k and boosted us quite a few positions. I'm sure I'll be back for more, eventually.
Welcome jeff to the team!
PLEASE READ! From the forum, please take note when running SZTAKI. Do not reboot or restart BOINC in the middle of a WU!
Anyone else have Sztaki just "show up" in their stats today??? I've not joined the project, never attached any clients to the project, yet I have 255 credit issued.
No, but I've had Sztaki credits disappear
(edit) check this out: stats
Users Returning Work : 41/41 (100.00%)
Looks like everyone got some....not just Ars
I am putting the only decent 32 bit machine I have on this.
Does anyone know offhand how the new WUs perform on P4s? What are the RAM requirements?
Also, if anyone has info on running this on 64bit linux please share (I made it work by using a 32 bit boinc client, but that is really annoying since I can't easily resume my other boinc projects without swapping the client back to the 64 bit one)
If anyone knows how to override the architecture string that boinc sends that would would be cool.
The ram requirements are less than 2,000k on my Windows machines. It also plays well with Wieferich. Don't know about the P4, never owned one.
I have to say the difference between January and now for the work units seems exceptional. I had around 20 failed then, and now they seem to be computing in about 2-3 hours.
I'll cross my fingers and if they stay stable for 24 hours I'll try it out on my other stuff.
Looks like the new WUs that came out today are quite a bit longer than we've had recently. Some sit on 0% for more than 5 hours before jumping to 20%. I was a little worried about them for a while but they seem to be progressing.
I'm seeing the same on my lone box on this right now.
Yeah I've worked through 10 or so, they are taking anywhere between 100,000-250,000 seconds - But my linux boxes seem to take about 20-40% longer than relative WindowsXP boxes.
It looks like these WUs are back to the same crap, LONG run times, and if you manually suspend the tasks, and resume the task - poof its done!
This was an issue with the previous WUs (where they seem to not know how to complete)
Now I've gotten some that have taken 16 hours to go to 20%. Otterz, good reminder about not suspending them.
No, suspending the task (not the project), will allow the WU to exit normally. It is like they get in a near infinite loop at the end for some reason, and they will exit normally if you suspend/resume the actual task. Of course I see some pretty weird stuff from this project on Linux, so I may be in the minority.
I did 11 that took anywhere from
40-78 hours.
Of the 11, I got 0 on 4 of the 5 that aren't pending.
That is over a day of wasted time!
Good info Otterz. Maybe time to bail on this again until they get it sorted out.
I've had 9 of the big WUs finish so far, all of them with credit pending of course. We'll see what happens...
Looks like there will be a new SZTAKI project soon:
Seems SZTAKI is designed to be a framework in which many applications can be run: not unlike WCG, PrimeGrid or Yoyo.
FWIW, of the four WUs I've completed in the last 24hrs, 3/4 got credit. Not great, but not as bad as I feared from hearing the luck Otterz has had.
Edit: Hey, that WU that showed zero credit, changed to a non-zero amount (are they manually fixing these after the fact?), so 4/4 of the original. Now I've got a new one showing granted credit of 0.00 - we'll see if that changes, too.
Congrats everyone, sticking with SZTAKI allowed us to jump into 18th place (17th later today) and edged us back into 1st place in the Vault Misc Category
As far as the new super-sized WUs, I now have 14 done and pending at this point waiting for the quorum...
Vault Misc 1st place!
You guys are making a huge positive impact on a recently grim Vault Misc outlook.
Even though our Majestic-12 team has doubled its production (yea M-12ers - keep increasing), it will loose a position (to a future #1 team) in 70-80 days.
We need 8 or 9 more positions here to make up for that 1 there.
So do what you can to continue your progress. Cheers!


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Renewables & efficiency - July 21
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Many more articles are available through the Energy Bulletin homepage
More wind than we thought?
Michael Bomford, Energy Farms
A new study of the global potential for wind-generated electricity (Lu et al. 2009) concludes that windmills can meet the world's energy demand with plenty of power to spare.
The open access paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that a global network of windmills operating at 20% of capacity could produce 2,470 exajoules (EJ) — about five times the current commercial energy consumption of the planet (~500 EJ). The latest estimate is much higher than the first evaluation of global wind power (Archer and Jacobson 2005), which estimated a similar network's output at 443 EJ.
The paper's state-by-state analysis of the potential for wind power in the US offers some surprises. The area where wind generation looks like a feasible alternative to fossil fuel power has grown dramatically. The old US-Department of Energy map (right) shows places like Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi as blank slates of white with no real potential for wind power. The new analysis (below) colors these states yellow, and concludes that each of them could replace their fossil fuel consumption entirely with wind power and have energy to spare...
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On the Brink of a New Era in Energyinterview with Siemens CEO
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The biggest solar energy project in the world is about to get off the drawing board. And leading German firm, Siemens, is just one of around a dozen organizations getting behind Desertec. SPIEGEL asked Siemens CEO Peter Löscher about his company's role in the project.
Top companies lined up on Monday to get behind the world's most ambitious solar energy project. They signed a memorandum of understanding in Munich to set up the Desertec Industrial Initiative which involves what is being called a "solar technology belt" across the Middle East and North Africa, with a huge undersea "super grid" then delivering the power back to Europe.
The aim of the €400 billion ($560 billion) project is to provide carbon-free energy that could supply up to 20 percent of European energy needs by 2050.
...The meeting formally established the Desertec group, which should be followed by firm plans for the project within two to three years time and then actual energy production for Europe within a decade. SPIEGEL spoke to Siemens Chief Executive Peter Löscher about his firm's involvement with what would be the biggest green energy project in the world.
SPIEGEL: This Monday, the representatives of around a dozen businesses will meet in Munich to facilitate what is possibly the most ambitious industrial project they have ever undertaken. What sort of role will Siemens be playing?
Löscher: We will be covering the whole chain of energy conversion, from efficient and environmentally friendly power generation via transport and distribution right up to end uses of electric power. Desertec is not just about solar and wind energy, it is also about energy superhighways for the low-loss transmission of power over thousands of kilometers and the management of such complex systems.
(13 July 2009)
Gerry Wolff at TREC-UK updates the Desertec story (video)
Marc Strassman, Etopia News
Gerry Wolff, TREC-UK coordinator, talks about the July 13, 2009, meeting in Munich, Germany, that created the Desertec Industrial Initiative to implement a network of concentrating solar collectors in North Africa for the generation of green electricity for local and European use, recorded from Wales, UK.
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High Point, NC- After taking the conference title two years ago, Queens University of Charlotte looks to return to the top of the Conference Carolinas podium for 2009. The Royals have been selected to the No. 1 spot in this year's preseason poll as voted on by league head coaches.
The Royals sat out the 2008 conference tournament but dominated the NCAA Southeast Region meet and finished seventh at the NCAA National Championships. The Royals will be led by junior Michael Crouch who took the bronze at the NCAA meet before winning NCAA 5,000- and 1500-meter national titles in the spring. Returning for Queens will be individual region champion Oscar Ogwaro and All-Region runners Futsum Mebrahtu and Matt Rowell. Adding depth for the Royals will be newcomers Edgar Santoyo, Simon Stuetzel, Alex Schilling and Nelson Mwangi.
"We hope to continue our progression this year," said Coach Scott Simmons, "and with added depth we should be more competitive at the conference, regional and national levels. Across the board on this team, we are seeing solid development from good consistent work."
The Lees-McRae College men's cross country team brings back their top seven runners and looks excited for what the 2009 season will bring. Reigning Freshman of the Year Craig Simpkins, and All-Conference performers Nathan Trimble and Chris Holstein will lead the way for the experienced Bobcat squad. Michael Davis and Jordan Gillespie are also expected to make a significant impact with Sondre Thorbergsen joining the team to add more quality depth for the Bobcats.
New to the Bobcats this year will be Head Coach Thomas Cason. After a brief retirement from coaching he returns with a passion to help continue the tradition of the Lees-McRae College Cross Country program.
"I am thrilled to see what this team can do, with the talent, hard work, dedication, and commitment; to go along with Coach Cason's guidance, this group can attain a lot of goals this fall," Lees-McRae College Athletic Director and assistant coach Craig McPhail said.
St. Andrews Presbyterian College is the defending Conference Carolinas men's cross country champions and will be looking for a large group of veteran runners to fill the vacancy left by two-time Conference Carolinas Runner of the Year, Mitch Cooper, who graduated in May. The Knights have a veteran team that will consist of seven harriers that are either in their junior or senior campaign. Junior Doug Holt, a two-time All-Conference honoree, will look to pace the Knights scoring five runners. The experience from a cluster of letter winners, along with this year's freshman class, should give St. Andrews the opportunity to be competitive both in league and in the Southeast Region.
"It definitely will be a competitive season, but these guys have put in a lot of miles this summer, building up their base and I feel confident that they will be up for the challenge," said reigning Conference Carolinas Coach of the Year, Jim Walters, who enters his second season at the helm of the St. Andrews cross country program.
Erskine finished fourth in the poll with Anderson fifth followed by Limestone, Coker, Mount Olive, Pfeiffer, Belmont Abbey, and Barton respectively rounding-out the poll standings.
Conference Carolinas Men's Cross Country Pre-Season Poll
(# of First Place Votes in Parenthesis)
1. Queens (9) 98
2. Lees-McRae (1) 89
3. St. Andrews (1) 79
4. Erskine 69
5. Anderson 62
6. Limestone 52
7. Coker 46
8. Mount Olive 35
9. Pfeiffer 30
10. Belmont Abbey 29
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Should we lower the drinking age?
(For discussions of the latest topics, check out the Human Nature Fray.)
The French government is facing a backlash for trying to DNA-test aspiring immigrants. If you claim to be related to a French resident, the legislation would offer "voluntary" testing to prove it. Objections: 1) It's a double standard, since legal family relationships among French natives don't require a genetic bond. 2) Ditto for privacy: No native has to submit to such testing. 3) It's reminiscent of collaboration with the Nazis. 4) It's cheap anti-immigrant politics. 5) Genetics has no place in human rights. Rebuttals: 1) It's voluntary. 2) It's free. 3) It's needed only when you can't produce other good evidence of a family relationship. 4) Eleven other European countries do it, so what's the big deal? 5) We'll try it for 18 months and drop it if it's a problem. 6) We'll just test maternity, to spare you the pain of discovering that your dad isn't really your dad. (Related: previous update on the French proposal.)
The new vice debate is whether to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18. A group seeking to lower the age is under attack from Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the National Transportation Safety Board, the American Medical Association, and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Arguments for 21: 1) It prevents deaths from drunk driving. 2) It prevents binge drinking. 3) Young people's brains aren't fully formed, so they're more susceptible to alcohol. 4) It protects them from pressure to drink. 5) It saves taxpayers billions in medical costs and lost productivity. 6) The polls are on our side. Arguments for 18: 1) The data on drunk driving are debatable. 2) Excess, not age, should be the issue. 3) The current drinking age "has forced drinking underground," which results in binge drinking. 4) Other countries have lower drinking ages without harm. 5) If competence to drink requires a fully formed brain, set the age at 25, not 21. 6) If saving lives is paramount, why not "mandatory injections of alcohol for men between the ages of 50 and 65"? (Related: Rethinking the age of sexual consent.) Human Nature's view: Lower the drinking age and punish impaired driving more severely.
A study of twins suggests picky eating is 78 percent genetic. The study found "no influence of sharedenvironmental factors"—i.e., if you raise genetically unrelated kids in the same household, they're no more likely to be similarly picky (or not) than if they'd been raised in different households. (The remaining 22 percent influence is from raising genetically similar kids differently within the same household.) * Old parental anxiety: My kids' pickiness is my fault for failing to shop or cook properly. New parental anxiety: My kids' pickiness is my fault for giving them picky genes. Depressed fatalist spin: Picky eating among preschoolers is inevitable, for evolutionary reasons. Upbeat fatalist spin: The evolutionary reasons fade as kids get older, so cross your fingers and keep serving vegetables. Human Nature's view: Eat vegetables in front of your kids. If it doesn't help them, it'll at least help you.
U.S. agencies and companies are developing robotic and remote-controlled insects. Original model: the CIA's gas-powered "insectothopter," which resembled a dragonfly. Current projects: 1) DARPA's "Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, aka "cyborg moths," created by putting computer chips into moths so they can be remotely controlled. 2) DARPA's "cyborg beetles." 3) Caltech's "microbat ornithopter." 4) Harvard's robotic fly, with "synthetic wings buzzing at 120 beats per second." 5) Georgia Tech's "entomopter." 6) Japan's radio-controlled "hawk moths." Advertised applications: tailing people, guiding missiles, finding survivors in wreckage. Hysterical critique: Insect robots threaten us all! Educated critique: Insect robots are doomed to become expensive bird food.
Scientists have treated vascular damage in eight people by giving them new blood vessels grown from their own cells. Method: They take a bit of your skin and an inch-long section of a vein, isolate certain cells, grow them into sheets of tissue, roll them into a tube, and implant them in your body. Benefits: 1) Your blood flow improves. 2) It's your own tissue, so you don't need anti-rejection drugs. 3) It's all natural, so you avoid inflammation. 4) It grows as you grow. Applications: kidney disease, diabetes, arteriosclerosis, and coronary birth defects. Caveat: It's been done on only a few patients and hasn't been monitored very long. (Related: lab-grown blood vessels, lab-grown livers, lab-grown bladders, lab-grown breast implants, and lab-grown meat.)
Genetics pioneer Craig Venter is close to announcing the first man-made organism. Venter's team recently created a new copy of a bacterium by transplanting its genome into a different organism. Now they're doing the same thing with an artificial chromosome. Advertised applications: making biofuel and eating greenhouse gases. Venter's spin: "We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it." (Cleanup from Venter's spokeswoman: Actually, we haven't done it yet.) Nail-biting reactions: 1) "What does it mean to create new life forms in a test-tube?" 2) It's the dawn of "designer genomes." 3) Many of them will be biological weapons. Human Nature's prediction: This will end up as one of the top 50 news items of the 21st century. (Are you more excited or afraid of the era of artificial organisms? Explain.)
A court in South Korea overturned the discharge of a female military pilot for lacking breasts. Circumstances: The pilot got cancer in one breast but asked doctors to remove the other breast, too, "believing it would be more convenient for her when flying." She was then kicked out on the grounds that "army regulations require soldiers who are missing body parts to be discharged." Court ruling: Her doctor says she's fit for normal military duty, and that's good enough. The military plans to appeal the ruling. Human Nature's view: If lack of boobs is disqualifying, start by discharging all the men. (Except the generals, of course.)
A 72-year-old man is fathering his own grandchild. His son shoots blanks, so his daughter-in-law needs donor sperm to get pregnant. The couple wants the baby to be genetically related to its nominal dad, so they asked Grandpa to pony up. This will make the baby its "father's" half-sibling. Objections: 1) Yuck. 2) The kid will freak out when he learns who he is. 3) The old guy's sperm could cause genetic disease. Clinic's rebuttals: 1) Our ethics committee signed off on it. 2) Lots of couples already use donor sperm from family members. 3) Society has "changed its perceptions of what is and what is not acceptable," so get over it. (Related: 1) Three women who have given birth to their grandchildren. 2) A woman who's freezing her eggs so her daughter can use them to have a baby. 3) Parents who used their dead son's sperm to inseminate a woman he never knew. 4) The business of manufacturing embryos from strangers' eggs and sperm. (Can you explain why fathering your grandchild is wrong? Give it your best shot.)
Marion Jones admitted to taking steroids and pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents about it. She faces up to six months in jail and the loss of her 2000 medals. Jones' spins: 1) My coach told me it was flaxseed oil. 2) When the agents asked me about it, I was trying to protect my coach and myself, and I panicked. Critics' reactions: 1) She thought it was flaxseed oil even though her coach told her "not to tell anyone about" it? 2) She didn't just take the drug; she lied about it repeatedly. 3) Stop blaming the men in her life. 4) She's going to cost her relay teammates their medals, too. Defenders' rebuttals: 1) Everybody does it. 2) She was the best athlete even without drugs. 3) Barry Bonds is using the same ignorance alibi, but he's getting away with it because his supplier, unlike hers, is refusing to talk. (Related columns: steroids vs. LASIK; steroids vs. steak; Olympic doping.) Should Jones' relay teammates lose their medals, too? Discuss in the Fray.
Microsoft launched a Web site for storing and sharing individual health records. Google and major health insurers are developing similar plans. Sample uses: 1) Your doctor puts your records on the site, where you can access them anytime. 2) You check your blood pressure or glucose at home, and your monitor automatically sends the data to your online records, where your doctor can access them. Microsoft's spins: 1) This will improve health care. 2) All your doctors will know all the medications you're taking. 3) We'll keep your records encrypted and totally private; only people you designate can look at them. 4) Consumers will get used to this just as they have with online banking. Skeptical reactions: 1) Private? Riiiight. 2) Even if the system is safe, people won't believe it, so they won't use it. 3) People don't care enough about their health to eat vegetables, much less manage their medical information. (Would you put your records on the Web? I would.)
Companies are peddling new home robots: 1) a roof-gutter cleaner; 2) a hospital robot through which doctors can interact with patients; 3) a Roomba-like Webcam you can steer around your house from far away, allowing you to "participate in family moments even though you're working late" or "read your kids a story and see their faces light up" while you're on a business trip; and 4) a "video surveillance" robot that can watch your pets while you're on vacation or spy on your kids if they're home alone. Industry spin: The new robots help you "connect" with your loved ones. Critiques: 1) They help you pretend you're connecting while you spend your life at the office. 2) They teach your kids that you need to spy because you don't trust them, even though you don't love them enough to be there in person. 3) Serves you right when some thief or pervert hacks into your Webcam robot. (Related stories: remote-controlled pigeons; remote-controlled hunting; remote-controlled aerial drones; remote-controlled flying saucers.) Human Nature's view: My wife would deactivate the robot on Day 1, after my son spent the afternoon mooning it.
Nearly half of the male-to-female transsexuals in a small study say they've achieved postoperative orgasm. All the participants had feminizing genitoplasty, i.e., "their penis surgically removed, their urethra repositioned and female labia constructed." In a follow-up subsample, roughly 90 percent had installed a vagina and a "neoclitoris" made from their penile glans. Findings: 1) Twenty-three percent had regular intercourse. 2) Forty-eight percent achieved orgasm. 3) Fourteen percent "reported having an overly sensitive clitoris." 4) Twenty-nine percent "were troubled by vaginal hair growth." Researchers' conclusion: Most patients were happy with the surgery. Human Nature's prediction: The next (but much rarer) breakthrough procedure will be adding a vagina while keeping your penis. Laurels to the first reader who can find a case in which this has already been done. (As always, post the URL in the Fray.)
Latest Human Nature columns: 1) Rethinking the age of consent. 2) The best sex stories of 2007. 3) Are conservatives stupid? 4) Larry Craig's anti-gay hypocrisy. 5) The jihad against tobacco. 6) Fat lies and fat lies revisited. 7) Liberals and bioethics. 8) The case for turning food into fuel. 9) Recombining man and beast. 10) The spread of virgin births.
Correction, Oct. 20, 2007: The item originally said that 22 percent of the influence on picky eating comes from "raising genetically similar kids in different households, so parenting style might make a difference." This was incorrect. The 22 percent influence comes from differences in environmental factors between individuals who share the same household. (See this Fray thread posted by Mangar.) (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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Hi Everybody, I've been working through the O'Reilly Ruby on Rails: Up and Running book, and I'm having some problems with the Drag and Drop feature. I've gone over it several times, and I'm quite sure that my code is identical to that displayed in the book, but the application is not running as expected. I've been stumped on this for a few days now, so I thought I would see if anybody has encountered this issue when working through the tutorial and if anybody else might be able to help. If you're not familiar with the book's tutorial, let me describe what this application is supposed to do or the expected behavior [note: It uses prototype.js, and effects.js and dragdrop.js from Script.aculo.us; Also, I'm running Rails 1.1.2]: There's a Slideshow Photos column and an Unused Photos column (by column I mean divs or tables--areas on the page). You're supposed to be able to drag photos(thumbnails) back and forth between these two columns (divs) and each time you do that, it's supposed to call either add_photo or remove_slide and update the columns appropriately. Also, you should be able to drag slides(thumbnails) in the Slideshow Photos column up and down to alter the order of slides in the slideshow. Here's the behavior I'm observing: 1) Before dragging and dropping anything, everything looks fine; I can drag slides within the Slideshow Photos up and down to change the order; I can drag either the slide thumbnails or the photo thumbnails (in the Unused Photos column) all over the page, but they won't stay there if I try to drop them outside of the div that is allowed to accept them--they just spring back to their starting spot. This is exactly as expected and there's no problem here. 2) Dragging photos(thumbnails) from the Unused Photos column to the Slideshow Photos column creates no problems whatsoever. I can do this repeatedly and it works as expected: the thumbnail gets added to the Slideshow Photos column as a slide and at the same time it disappears from the Unused Photos column. 3) The problem starts once I drag a slide (thumbnail) from the Slideshow Photos column to the Unused Photos column. The first time it works correctly. I can drag a slide over, hold it over the Unused Photos column, and it will fade slightly as it's supposed to and once I drop it, both columns update appropriately (the thumbnail disappears from the Slideshow Photos column and appears in the Unused Photos column). But after that first time, everything sort of goes berserk. First of all, pictures in neither column spring back to where they're supposed to be. I can now drag a thumbnail or a slide all over the page and drop it anywhere--it doesn't spring back. When I drag a slide over to the Unused Photos column (or drag a photo to the Slideshow Photos column)--the div that receives it, it no longer fades. If I drag and drop another slide from the Slideshow Photos column to the Unused Photos column, the Unused Photos column will update but the slide that was dragged over doesn't disappear. It just gets sent backward so it's behind the other thumbnails after they've updated. And the Slideshow Photos column doesn't update, so it has gaps wherever I've dragged a slide away. If I drag and drop a photo into the Slideshow Photos column, the Slideshow Photos column will update, but the photo that was dragged over doesn't disappear or move. I can pick it up again and drag and drop it anywhere on the page. I can drop it on the Slideshow Photos column again and again (and get a lot of duplicate slides). Also, the Unused Photos column doesn't update when I drag a photo from it and drop it onto the Slideshow Photos column. I think that describes it! So to summarize, it works fine just the first time and then everything gets screwy. Why is that? I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks so much! Rick CODE: # remove_slide is the method in the controller that is called when a slide is # dragged from the Slideshow Photos column and dropped into the Unused Photos # column def remove_slide slideshow_id = session[:slideshow].id slide_id = params[:id].split("_")[1] Slide.delete(slide_id) @slideshow = Slideshow.find(slideshow_id) session[:slideshow] = @slideshow @photos = unused_photos(@slideshow) render_partial 'photo_picker' end # drop_receiving_element is the AJAX helper that calls the remove_slide method. # "slideshow-photo-picker" and "slideshow-photos" describe the divs that # contain the Unused Photos column <%= drop_receiving_element("slideshow-photo-picker", :update => "slideshow-photos", :url => {:action => "remove_slide"}, :accept => "slides", :droponempty => "true", :loading => visual_effect(:fade), :complete => visual_effect(:highlight, 'slideshow_photos') ) %>
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Phil's Depot
This place is a depot located in Vice Port in Vice City. In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, which is set by 1984, Phil resides in this depot after being "evicted" by the Cholo gang. Phil's depot is always the start point of all Phil Cassidy's missions for Victor Vance. The nearby Phil's Shooting Range, which hosts a shooting range, is actually an alternative stockhouse of Cassidy's gun artillery and ammunition (except Boomshines, which were stocked in his Depot and his warehouse in Little Havana). By 1986, on the happenings of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, it is in a state of disrepair, with grasses growing up from beneath the cracked cement. It is here that the fateful botched drug deal between Tommy Vercetti and the Vance Crime Family takes place most likely because of Victor Vance's familiarity with the location. Later that year, the Counterfeit Syndicate use the depot as their landing spot when their agent with the printing plates makes her entrance into the city.
In 1984, Phil's "daisy", his yellow Walton, is parked without any cargo along with a Perennial, which is fire-attractive (for no reason, it explodes without smoking) in Phil's Depot.


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Geckoella jeyporensis
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Geckoella jeyporensis (Beddome, 1878)
Common Name(s):
Gymnodactylus jeyporensis Beddome, 1878
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Geckoella jeyporensis was described by Beddome in 1877 based on specimens collected from Pathinge Hill, Jeypore, Orissa (Smith 1935). Species of Geckoella are sometimes allocated to the genus Cyrtodactylus. Molecular phylogenetic data reveal that Geckoella is embedded within Cyrtodactylus, but formal taxonomic action is pending (A. Bauer and I. Agarwal pers. comm. March 2011).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered B1ab(iii) ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Srinivasulu, C., Roy, A.D. & Srinivasulu, B.
|Bowles, P., Bauer, A., Murthy, B.H.C.K., Agarwal, I., Mohapatra, P., Sondhi, S., Pal, S. & Molur, S.
Geckoella jeyporensis is known only from two separated (severely fragmented) locations in high elevation moist forest of Jeypore Hills in Orissa and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. The extent of occurrence is highly restricted to less than 100 km2 of fragmented high elevation habitat. There are several threats to the habitat which include deforestation for mining, fuel wood, conversion to plantations and forest fires. The species is highly threatened and is assessed as Critically Endangered.
|Range Description:
|Geckoella jeyporensis is endemic to the Eastern Ghats, India. The type locality is probably Patinghe (Potangi) Hill near Jeypore in Orissa (Smith 1935). The species had not been collected since it was originally found in 1877, and there were fears that it might be extinct. However, it was recently recorded (September 2010) from Deomali, Jeypore in Koraput District, Orissa about 10 km from the type locality (A. Datta-Roy and I. Agarwal pers. comm. March 2011). A further collection was also made in October 2011, 40 km away from the type locality at Galikonda, Visakhapatnam District, Andra Predesh Agarwal et al. 2012). Its known extent of occurrence is probably under 100 km2. Within this area, its occurrence appears to be highly restricted at the two known sites, with a recent two-day survey failing to locate it in nearby areas, and the area of occupancy is provisionally estimated to be around 20 km2. There are, however, other high peaks in this hill range where this species might be found. It occurs at elevations between 1,200 to 1,300 m. asl.
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Native:India (Andhra Pradesh, Orissa)
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|Nothing is known about the population size or trends of this species, but it appears to be extremely scarce given the low number of specimens and sightings to-date.
|Current Population Trend:
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|The type specimen was collected in a wood on top of Patinghe hill, near Jeypore (Smith 1935). For the more recent collections, one individual was collected from under a rock in a patch of semi-evergreen forest at Deomali and one from a coffee plantation at Galikonda which still had many native shade trees (Agarwal et al. 2012). It therefore appears that this species is confined to semi-evergreen high altitude forests. All recent specimens were collected during the day and no animals were observed at night. Nothing else is known about the ecology of this species.
|Continuing decline in area, extent and/or quality of habitat:
|Use and Trade:
|The species is not known to be in use or trade, but it is an attractive species and could become the target of commercial collection.
|Major Threat(s):
|The forest habitats where this species occurs are under extreme pressure (Agarwal et al. 2012). Neither of the new localities is in a protected area and both are severely deforested. Galikonda and the surrounding hills have been converted to coffee plantations and at Deomali there are grazing and fuel wood collection pressures. The hills in the Koraput District also face pressure from bauxite mining. Generally semi-evergreen forests in this region have been converted to plantations (with exotic species), agriculture or grazing lands and the remaining forest patches are impacted by fuel wood collection and occasional forest fires.
|Conservation Actions:
|There are no known species-specific conservation measures in place for this species and none of the known localities is in a protected area. There is an urgent need for survey work to determine its range, and protect the areas of presence.
|Srinivasulu, C., Roy, A.D. & Srinivasulu, B. 2013. Geckoella jeyporensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T194100A2298685. . Downloaded on 17 August 2018.
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